A letter to Sir Francis Milman, Bart. M.D. President of the Royal College of Physicians, on the subject of the proposed reform in the condition of the apothecary and surgeon-apothecary, with an appendix containing the correspondence between the general committee and the three corporate medical bodies, by one of the committee.

Date:
1813
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Credit: A letter to Sir Francis Milman, Bart. M.D. President of the Royal College of Physicians, on the subject of the proposed reform in the condition of the apothecary and surgeon-apothecary, with an appendix containing the correspondence between the general committee and the three corporate medical bodies, by one of the committee. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    person shall obtain a certificate to practise as a Sui-geon-Apothecary, without having previously* procured a diploma from the College of Sur- geons ; and I trust that highly res^pectable Body will officially notify to the Committee their deter- mination to remain neutral; indeed no obstacles to the measure in question can be anticipated from that quarter. As to the Society of Apothe- caries, there is no intention of meddling in any way with their rights as a trading body; and as, as has been already mentioned, they possess no controul, even over their own members as professional men, and absolutely none whatever over the great body of mixed Practitioners, it is difficult to conceive in what respect their privi- leges can in tlie smallest degree be affected by the formation of a fourth legally constituted Medical Body. But, how far they may be bias- sed by the College of Physicians, it is not my province, nor is it very important to ascertain. From the above statement, then, it is pretty evi- dent, that no reasonable objection can be advanc- ed against the formation of the projected Super- intending Committee ; and it is not difficult to conceive that the most important advantages are likely to result from it, as far as the competency of Apothecaries, and consequently -the benefit of the Public, are concerned. Let us, now, examine,